I'm having trouble getting aliases to expand on my hosting account when I run a command like:
ssh user@server "bash -c \"alias\""
My .bashrc file is:
echo .bashrc
# .bashrc
shopt -s expand_aliases
# Source global definitions (commenting this out does nothing)
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# User specific aliases and functions
alias php="php55"
alias composer="php ~/bin/composer.phar"
When I run the above ssh command, I do see ".bashrc" echo'd. But if I try to run aliases, I get nothing.
I could try "bash -ic", but this is actually in a script that I can't easily change, and I want to know why this isn't working.
Output of ssh user@server "bash -c \"shopt\""
.bashrc
autocd off
cdable_vars off
cdspell off
checkhash off
checkjobs off
checkwinsize off
cmdhist on
compat31 off
compat32 off
compat40 off
dirspell off
dotglob off
execfail off
expand_aliases off
extdebug off
extglob off
extquote on
failglob off
force_fignore on
globstar off
gnu_errfmt off
histappend off
histreedit off
histverify off
hostcomplete on
huponexit off
interactive_comments on
lithist off
login_shell off
mailwarn off
no_empty_cmd_completion off
nocaseglob off
nocasematch off
nullglob off
progcomp on
promptvars on
restricted_shell off
shift_verbose off
sourcepath on
xpg_echo off
Output of ssh user@server "bash -c \"echo $SHELL\""
.bashrc
/bin/bash
Best Answer
From the
bash(1)
man page: